Ticket holder



July 2, 1940. v A VARON 2,206,522

TICKET HOLDER Filed Jan. :5, 1940 III /////r J72 .7/e7z [07": Javzae 7/7Varazz,

Patented July 2, 1940 UNITED STATES TICKET PATENT OFFICE HOLDERcorporation of Illinois Application January 3,

1 Claim.

This invention relates to ticket holders and its principal object is toprovide a ticket holder. consisting of a single piece of sheet metal,made in one operation with suitable dies, to provide a rectangularticket holding member from. which project two tongues that serve toclamp the holder on a fiat plate or strip, at a suitable angle thereto,so that the ticket or card, held by the holder, is supported in aposition whereby the printed or written data thereon may be clearlyread.

Another object is to reduce the cost of construction of ticket holdersof this kind, tosave material and to reduce the number of operationsnecessary to form the device.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the course of thisspecification, and with said objects and advantages in view thisinvention consists in the several novel features hereinafter fully setforth and claimed.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the drawing accompanying thisspecification, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a ticket holder embodying the preferredform. of the invention, showing the same clamped upon a glass strip;

Fig, 2 is a central vertical cross section through the holder and glassstrip.

Fig. 3 is a plan of a blank from which the holder is formed.

In many merchandising establishments, bins are made up of glass stripsand connecting clips or other connections in which bins are storedvarious kinds of merchandise that are for sale. Usually each bincontains one kind of merchandise, and a price ticket or card issupported by some member of the bin to apprise prospective customers ofthe cost of the article. The present holder has been designed to hold aprice ticket at a suitable angle so that the printed or written datathereon may be readily observed.

In its preferred form the ticket holder comprises a rectangular ticketholding member [0, which has opposed tongues H, H struck up from it,that are bent to stand at an oblique angle to the plane of the ticketholder member and are spaced apart so as to grip a flat support, such asone of the glass strips I3 of a bin, and hold the ticket holding memberin an inclined plane, whereby the data on the ticket or card which isheld in the ticket holding member, may be readily read by prospectivecustomers.

Desirably the ticket holding member is formed with side edge portions l4that are bent over the body of the holder, and serve to hold the ticketor card thereon, and the end edge portions I5 1940, Serial No. 312,207

are bent up, to stand at an angle to the plane of the body to preventthe ticket or card from accidentally slipping out in an endwisedirection.

The tongue H is made somewhat wider than the tongue i2 and the lattertongue is partly cut out of the larger tongue, as is best seen in Fig.3, which illustrates the blank before it is bent up. The blank is slitback from one side edge as at It, and the tongue H is bent down alongthe dotted lines I! to stand at an oblique angle to the body of theticket holding member as seen in Fig, 2. The tongue I2 is formed bycutting the slits I8, 19, in the tongue II, and body of the ticketholding member, and bending it down at 20 along a curved line as seen inFig. 2. The tongue l2 inclines toward the tongue I I so that the glassstrip may be clasped between the tongues when the holder is applied tothe strip. Its lower extremity is curved outward away from the tongue Hto facilitate placing the holder on the glass strip. In the blank shownin Fig. 3 the side edge portions 14 are bent up and over on the dottedlines 2| and the end edge portions I5 are bent up on the dotted lines22.

The holder is applied to a glass strip or other flat support by forcingthe holder down with the tongues straddling the strip. The angle betweenthe body of the ticket holding member and flat tongue determines theangle of inclination of the ticket holding member.

The exact shape and disposition of the tongues is not material as thisinvention, broadly considered, may be varied considerably withoutdeparting from the invention.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A ticket holder comprising a single piece, sheet metal article ofmanufacture comprising a generally rectangular ticket holding memberprovided with ticket retaining edge portions and having opposing, struckup tongues extending lengthwise thereof, one of which is flat anddisposed at an oblique angle to the plane of the ticket holding member,and the other tongue being .narrower than the first mentioned one andbeing partially struck up therefrom, and sloping towards the same, saidtongues joining the ticket holding member at lines of juncture spacedapart transversely of said member and arranged to grasp an upright fiatsupporting member whereby to support the ticket holding member in aninclined plane with its under-side engaging the upper edge of theupright supporting member.

SAMUEL- A. VARON.

